Studio - A play within a play, through David Hockney
© HEAD – Genève, Alain Van Garderen - Capucine Bricheux - Oxana Streit
Annunciation 1, Interior and Exterior with Flowers from the Brass Tacks, Triptych 2017
© David Hockney
Unstable Office, Alain Van Garderen - Capucine Bricheux - Oxana Streit
© HEAD – Genève, Alain Van Garderen - Capucine Bricheux - Oxana Streit
A Bigger Interior With Blue Terrace and Garden, 2017
© David Hockney
A Bigger Interior, Maïlys Bonnet - Maud Pomoroski - Tom Wenger
© HEAD – Genève, Maïlys Bonnet - Maud Pomoroski - Tom Wenger
A Bigger Interior, Maïlys Bonnet - Maud Pomoroski - Tom Wenger
© HEAD – Genève, Maïlys Bonnet - Maud Pomoroski - Tom Wenger
Autoportrait à la guitare bleue, 1977
© David Hockney
Hockoffice, Olivia Porter - Tina Felix - Aline Weiss - Léana Teixeira
© HEAD – Genève, Olivia Porter - Tina Felix - Aline Weiss - Léana Teixeira
Hockoffice, Olivia Porter - Tina Felix - Aline Weiss - Léana Teixeira
© HEAD – Genève, Olivia Porter - Tina Felix - Aline Weiss - Léana Teixeira
Hollywood Hills House, 1983
© David Hockney
Hollywood hills survivor, Thérèse Weibel - Etienne Poncet - Virginie Camillo
© HEAD – Genève, Thérèse Weibel - Etienne Poncet - Virginie Camillo
Hollywood hills survivor, Thérèse Weibel - Etienne Poncet - Virginie Camillo
© HEAD – Genève, Thérèse Weibel - Etienne Poncet - Virginie Camillo
Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968
© David Hockney
Séjour en amour, Chiara Kocis - Camille Maingret - Abigaël Mackenzie
© HEAD – Genève, Chiara Kocis - Camille Maingret - Abigaël Mackenzie
Séjour en amour, Chiara Kocis - Camille Maingret - Abigaël Mackenzie
© HEAD – Genève, Chiara Kocis - Camille Maingret - Abigaël Mackenzie
Séjour en amour, Chiara Kocis - Camille Maingret - Abigaël Mackenzie
© HEAD – Genève, Chiara Kocis - Camille Maingret - Abigaël Mackenzie

Studio - A play within a play, through David Hockney

June 2020

Studio tutor : Youri KravtchenkoYKRA
Assistant : Manon Portera

“Every image is the story of a perspective on something.”
David Hockney in Une Histoire des Images, Solar Editions, 2016

An image is never completely trivial and a painting always features a point of view. Through a few targeted operations divided into three acts around a selection of David Hockney's paintings, students were invited to choose one of the artist's paintings and to extract all the data from it. 

Act 1 consisted in noting and assembling the spaces of the paintings in three dimensions, integrating the painter's sensation and subjectivity as well as that of the students.
Act 2 enabled the students to become familiar with the scenography of the space, and in groups the students then had to immerse the viewers into the newly-obtained spaces from the paintings.
Finally act 3, which was disrupted by the pandemic, turned the studio into an imaginary factory of Hockneysian refuges or kits to prepare for the confinement of tomorrow.

View all of the school's projects